php - News post with multiple permalinks? When opened from different page

I’ve got a question. Maybe it’s something existing and I don’t know the name. Or maybe it’s something custom.

I’ve got a post type for news. The news posts have categories. These are some examples of separate news items

• News item 1.

  • Category “purple”

• News item 2.

  • Category “purple”
  • Category “red”

• News item 3.

  • Category “red”

I have 3 pages where I show and filter the news:

• www.domain/news (This shows all the news)
• www.domain/purple/news (This shows all the purple news)
• www.domain/red/news (This shows all the purple news)

Showing a filtered post grid on each news page is not the problem. The problem is displaying them. By default the permalinks of each news post is:

• www.domain/news/news-item-1
• www.domain/news/news-item-2
• www.domain/news/news-item-3

And this is fine for the news on www.domain/news/

But now I want to display the category news items like following: From www.domain/purple/news I want to click on the news item and open it like:

• www.domain/purple/news/news-item-1
• www.domain/purple/news/news-item-2

And from www.domain/red/news I want to click on the news item and open it like:

• www.domain/red/news/news-item-2
• www.domain/red/news/news-item-3

The Question

How do I get the news on the category news pages to open and show the items on the preferred url? (this should also show up in the sitemap.xml)

I’ve got a question. Maybe it’s something existing and I don’t know the name. Or maybe it’s something custom.

I’ve got a post type for news. The news posts have categories. These are some examples of separate news items

• News item 1.

  • Category “purple”

• News item 2.

  • Category “purple”
  • Category “red”

• News item 3.

  • Category “red”

I have 3 pages where I show and filter the news:

• www.domain/news (This shows all the news)
• www.domain/purple/news (This shows all the purple news)
• www.domain/red/news (This shows all the purple news)

Showing a filtered post grid on each news page is not the problem. The problem is displaying them. By default the permalinks of each news post is:

• www.domain/news/news-item-1
• www.domain/news/news-item-2
• www.domain/news/news-item-3

And this is fine for the news on www.domain/news/

But now I want to display the category news items like following: From www.domain/purple/news I want to click on the news item and open it like:

• www.domain/purple/news/news-item-1
• www.domain/purple/news/news-item-2

And from www.domain/red/news I want to click on the news item and open it like:

• www.domain/red/news/news-item-2
• www.domain/red/news/news-item-3

The Question

How do I get the news on the category news pages to open and show the items on the preferred url? (this should also show up in the sitemap.xml)

• custom-post-types
• php
• posts
• permalinks

Share Improve this question asked Nov 29, 2018 at 10:23 TimTim 16711 silver badge77 bronze badges 4

• And why do you want to reverse order of slugs in the URL? Why not use example/news/purple/ and example/news/purple/first-news-slug/ instead? (It's much more natural and intuitive...) – Krzysiek Dróżdż Commented Nov 29, 2018 at 10:58
• @KrzysiekDróżdż, because example/purple is sort of a landing page for this category. With a new page and some other pages under it. – Tim Commented Nov 29, 2018 at 12:22
• Posts should have a single canonical URL, otherwise search engines will penalize you for duplicate content. – Milo Commented Nov 29, 2018 at 14:31
• @Milo, thanks for bringing that to my attention. I'll use "rel="canonical" link element" for this duplicates to fix it. Source: support.google/webmasters/answer/66359?hl=en – Tim Commented Nov 29, 2018 at 14:47

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you can use Custom Permalinks plugin. you can create and edit each post and category link very essay. https://wordpress/plugins/custom-permalinks/ Try this once

I've found a solution. This is the abstracted version:

add_rewrite_rule(
     '^red\/news([^/]*)/?',
     'index.php?event=$matches[1]',
     'top'
);

//Ensure the $wp_rewrite global is loaded
global $wp_rewrite;
//Call flush_rules() as a method of the $wp_rewrite object
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules( false );

In the actual function I've made an array with the pages I want to redirect. (Source and destination) and run foreach and flush the rules after.